Besides damper technology, other remarkable examples of ancient construction methods still ... Today, architects are employing dougong for retro-aesthetic and structural reasons; one of those ...

Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe ... but there has been a revival in interest because of its aesthetics and its perceived environmental benefits.

Other essential ancient construction techniques ... but continue to be reinvented today for different structural and aesthetic needs. Consisting of a wooden bracketing system that once supported ...

Even today, they still provide us with new insights into aesthetic, practical, and technical aspects of construction and ... making it the longest of the ancient world. The aqueduct consisted ...

including construction, shipbuilding and firewood. Unfortunately, the timber trade in ancient Rome is poorly understood, as little wood has been found in a state adequate for analysis. In this ...

Now they seem inseparable. The novel could have even fit comfortably in the exhibition itself—“From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics”—which combines 5,000-year-old Sumerian ...

But it’s actually an ancient idea. For hundreds of years, Japan’s dominant aesthetic has been wabi sabi, which values the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete. You know wabi sabi ...